Feroz Rather is an associate professor of practice in the Literature and Writing program at Simmons University. He is the author of The Night of Broken Glass, and his work has appeared in World Literature Today, Granta, and elsewhere. He is currently engaged in a dialogue about the global novel with writers from different parts of the world. He lives in Boston and is finishing The Derby Shoe, a novel about a Kashmiri flâneur adrift in Delhi.

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Writing on Public Books
Aria Aber’s Defiant Love Letter to Berlin
“The experiences of coming of age and coming into art—of finding your own voice and a vision for your craft—are spiritual and psychological journeys, and, for lack of a better word, universal.”
Difficult Empathies
“What would a successful war novel look like? This question concealed a deeper question I had: What would a truthful Kashmir novel look like?”











